[RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/15/2011 12:47 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>
>> OK, serial-8250 is clearly just plain wrong, since the 8250 series UARTs
>> are ubiquitous across just about every platform.
>>
>> Floppy is special (in the short bus sense), since it is closely tied to
>> ISA DMA.  Conditionalizing this on ISA DMA makes total sense.
> 
> No it doesn't.  It depends on the ISA DMA API, not that the machine has
> ISA DMA.
> 
> I have a platform which has no ISA DMA but uses the floppy driver.  Please
> don't break it.

OK, even more case in point, then.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.